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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014 18 Events Bay Street donates choco-fest proceeds of €2,500 to Beating Hearts foundation FIVE winners of golden tick- ets awarded during the Shop & Win Competition as part of last month 's Nestlé Wonka Choco- Fest at the Bay Street Complex in St George's Bay, St Julian's, have been presented with their prizes. Tiziana Francalanza won an elec- tric scooter worth €2,800; Lucien Malaquti won the Bay Street Hotel weekend break; Sina Mifsud and Audrey Polidano won the Nestlé Confectionery goodie baskets; and Luke Borg won gifts from Juniors Fun & Learn Centre at Bay Street. This year's Nestlé Wonka Choco- Fest, held over the Easter holidays between 19 and 27 April, was an outstanding success. "We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all the chocolate lovers of all ages who visited Bay Street during this amazing event," Bay Street Marketing Executive Philip Galea said. "Special thanks go to our main sponsor, Nestlé, with their new range of Wonka chocolates, Mas- ter Chocolatier Andrew Farrugia, the students from the Institute of Tourism Studies and all the actors and actresses who played the parts of Charlie and the Umpa Lumpas during the nine-day choco-fest." As a sign of Bay Street's grati- tude to the management of Nestlé in Malta for their support of this event, it presented them with all the chocolate sculptures and choc- olate paintings made by Mr Farru- gia, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest chocolate sculpture, during the two days he was at the choco-fest. The Nestlé Wonka Choco-Fest was also an opportunity for Bay Street to assist the Beating Hearts Malta Foundation, which received all the proceeds of the event. This amounted to €2,500, which was raised over these nine days to sup- port the foundation in its mission to help children with heart prob- lems. "We are highly grateful for this successful outcome," Mr Galea said. "It shows that what we are building here at Bay Street is in- creasingly being welcomed by our clients and many visitors. It won't stop here since we are very pleased to announce that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will come back for Easter 2015." Bay Street Marketing Executive Philip Galea presenting the 100 per cent chocolate picture of a scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Master Chocolatier Andrew Farrugia to Nestlé representatives Josianne Micallef and Joanna Micallef-Farrugia Great Spring Horticultural Show 2014 THE Annual Great Spring Hor- ticultural Show, organized by the Malta Horticultural Society in the gardens of San Anton at Attard- Malta and in the exhibition Halls of the Presidential Palace and the Russia Chapel, opens its gates to the public on Saturday 17 May 2014 at 14.00hrs. The show stays open till 8:00pm, as the garden will be lit for the oc- casion. The following day Sunday 18 May, the show opens at 8:00am and closes at 9:00pm. The prize giving ceremony, presided by the President of the Republic, starts at 7:00pm. This horticultural show, the main one on the island, comprises both competitions and exhibitions of flower arrangements, pot plants, vegetables and fruit. The over 200 classes, on competition basis, of horticultural products, as well as numerous floral exhibitions, make this a showcase of the local farmers' and growers' work and proof of the high artistic level of our flower ar- rangers. During recent years, the society has been inviting a foreign profes- sional Flower Arranger to give master classes before and during the show. This year we are inviting Professor and Headmistress Riho Miyamoto of Koryu-Toyoki School in Japan, to give this year's show a touch of Ikebana, the Japanese Flo- ral Art. This event also offers an opportu- nity for a wide selection of crafts- men and artists to show their crea- tions, ranging from tapestry work to paintings, from beekeeping to olive oil, from the traditional Maltese Clocks to sculptures. A section is devoted to school children, where apart from exhibit- ing pot plants, posters, and window boxes, they also exhibit models of farms and miniature gardens. On both days, various demonstra- tions on local crafts will be held, as well as an entertainment pro- gramme of dancing, folklore music, and village band marches spread over both days. A catering service will also be available to encourage visitors to visit all stands and to explore the formal gardens of San Anton. An entrance fee of €2 per adult is paid at the gate. Children under 12 go free. HSBC Merchant Services changes name to Global Payments HSBC Merchant Services is chang- ing its name to Global Payments, ef- fective as from 1 June 2014. In 2012, Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) and HSBC Merchant Services Limited, a Malta-based subsidiary of Global Payments, pur- chased the card processing business from HSBC Bank Malta p.l.c. Global Payments Limited ena- bles businesses in Malta to accept card payments in a face-to-face, telephone or mail order and eCom- merce basis in euro. The company also recently introduced Dynamic Currency Conversion service in cardholder local currencies includ- ing GBP and USD. Global Payments Limited is HSBC Bank Malta p.l.c.'s preferred suppli- er for card processing in Malta and has undertaken a significant pro- gramme of investment in the card processing business in this market. Although the card processing busi- ness will be changing both its name and logo, there will be no change to either the people or to the great service that is currently provided in Malta. The Global Payments logo will be on display informing cus- tomers that the respective outlet can accept HSBC Quikcash, Diners Club and Discover, MasterCard and Visa card payments. New appointment to the board of the International Forfaiting Association LORNA Pillow, First Vice Presi- dent at London Forfaiting Compa- ny Limited (LFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIMBank plc, has been unanimously co-opted to the Board of the International Forfait- ing Association (IFA), which is the worldwide trade association for commercial companies, financial institutions and intermediaries engaged in Forfaiting. Pillow, an Honours graduate in Banking and Finance, commenced her career in Trust Administration and subsequently was involved in trading International Repos and Securities Lending on behalf of RZB Vienna through an agency company. She was later appointed General Manager of the Company, a position she held until she joined FIMBank plc. Following the acquisition of LFC by FIMBank, she was entrusted with establishing the LFC Opera- tions Unit in Malta. Under Lorna's supervision, the LFC Operations Unit was successful in attaining the first ever ISO9001:2000 cer- tification in Forfaiting. During the course of 2006, her role also encompassed the establishment of the Factoring Department. In their official statement, the IFA referred to Ms Pillow's " long and reputable experience" in Forfait- ing, adding that its members "will all benefit from her contribution to build a larger and stronger As- sociation". Forfaiting is a form of interna- tional supply chain financing, which involves the discounting of future payment obligations. For further information visit w w w. forfaiting.com. YOUR FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY www.maltatoday.com.mt Download the MaltaToday App now

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